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First point; I wish you had create a new thread with the Subject: something
like: "Ping NormanM: HP Pavilion 6735 dial up proxy problem". This clearly
is not related to the current subject, and I would notice my name in the
subject!

Norman, I have an HP 6735 Pavilion running HP Win ME and am curious, can you
enable dialup proxy server under internet options connections settings
advanced (I think) ? Mine is permanently disabled and I do not understand
this, neither does HP support apparently.

Actually, it is under the "Settings..." button. Dial up proxy server? I
don't see that as an option. All I have is "Use a proxy server for this
connection", and a place to enter an IP address and port number. Is that
what you want? I is enabled in my case, so there may be a conflicting
setting somewhere else. I see that you have a Level3 dial up connection:

X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 4.228.96.93

Sam Spade tells me:

04/08/05 15:34:45 dns 4.228.96.93
nslookup 4.228.96.93
Canonical name: dialup-4.228.96.93.Dial1.Denver1.Level3.net
Addresses:
4.228.96.93

But I don't think Level3 is an ISP in any area, they just contract with ISPs
to provide Points Of Presence (POPs) for them; SBC, my ISP, gives me a
Level3 IP address in the 4.0.0.0/8 range whenever I use a modem to connect,
instead of my normal DSL connection.

You may need to check with your ISP, if you installed their software. As a
rule, one should never install the software their ISP sends. Other than
that, maybe a registry hack will help; but I don't even know which key to
check.

Is anything else checked on that same dialogue box?

--
Norman
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